280 REVISION Of AUSTRALIAN LEPtDOPTERA, vi., 



in the usual way by ol)solescence of the basal part of vein 11. 

 T have seen no example in which 11 arises out of 10 and anas- 

 tomoses with 12, as stated by Meyrick and Hampson (Moths Ind., 

 iii., p. 163). 



Type, S. metallaria Gn. 



1. Wings with postmedian line curved or sinuate 2. 



Wings with postmedian line straight ithyzona. 



2. Wings with line, streak-like, blackish strigulse metallaria. 



Wings with fuscous irroration, but without strigulse chrysolina. 



166. SCARDAMIA METALLARIA. 



Scardamia metallaria, Gn., Lep., ix., p.89; Hmps., Moths Ind., 

 iii., p.163. 



Very similar to S. chrysolina, but in addition to the character 

 given above, the antemedian line appears to be obsolete in the 

 hind wings. Forewings with 11 apparently from 12, 10 from 

 cell, free (1$). 



N.A.: Port Darwin, in December; one specimen received from 

 Mr. F. P. Dodd. — Also from Java, Formosa, Ceylon, and India. 



167. .Scardamia chrysolina. 



Scardamia chrysolina, Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 1891, p.640. 



Antenna! pectinations of £ 8, apical ! simple. Forewings 

 with 11 apparently from 12, 10 from cell, free (2<$, lQ). 



Q.: Brisbane, in October and May. — N.S.W.: Newcastle. 



168. Scardamia ithyzona, n.sp. 

 tdv^wvos, straight-girdled. 

 9- 26-29 mm. Head orange, posteriorly dull purple : face 

 reddish. Palpi 1|; reddish. Antenna? dull purple. Thorax 

 orange. Abdomen, base, and dorsum orange, sides dull reddish: 

 a rounded, metallic, dorsal crest on first segment. Legs whitish, 

 tinged with reddish. Forewings triangular, costa rather strongly 

 arched, apex round-pointed, termen bowed, oblique; 10 and 11 

 long-stalked, their stalk anastomosing shortly with 12 (3<J), or 

 connected by a short bar(lQ); orange, rather densely strigulated 

 with pale purple-fuscous; a dull purple costal streak; a fuscous 

 line edged posteriorly by a fine metallic line from ^ costa to .'. 



